I simply *love* the coloring job in the strips that portray the "virtual landscape" of the AIs, as portrayed in the Sunday comic for April 8, and in today's comic.

In me it induces feelings that are vague and very hard to express, but which are undoubtedly nice. VERY nice.

Congratulations to the colorist!! (and to Howard, of course, for creating the awesomazing Universe of Schlock Mercenary!!)

Nostalgia? Colouring of those strips imitates old dot print (or maybe dot draw, or both, I'm not an illustrator, just some time ago I noticed that dots are back occasionally) techniques.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Day_dotshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HalftoneAs far as I know, they are obsolete nowadays (or rather any dots used today are supposed to be too fine to be visible to naked eye) and only used to create impression of old comic print, however in this function they are not limited to comics. Animated series might use those as a throwback to origin of series (example: shades in remake of DuckTales are a throwback to original prints of Carl Barks comics). I do not know what those dots are supposed to represent here, maybe pixels inherent in digital simulation?

EDIT: Now that I look closer, there are also "artefacts" imitating old printing deficiencies, imperfections of pulp paper and damage done to print over time (compare to images in series of entries on this topic on this blog: https://legionofandy.com/2016/08/26/ben ... of-comics/ found courtesy of google). So perhaps it's supposed to graphically present how positively ancient can full of sky and it's internal works are?